October 21, 2012

We lost out to both New York City and Washington DC, this time in the contest for the town with the highest earnings. Here are the Top Ten, courtesy of CNN/Money, of the places with the highest median family incomes.

People, this is not good. Not only did High Tech lose out to High Finance and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, but there’s Highly-wood right behind us. Also this list is disturbingly full of Least Coasters.

Here’s what they thought of The Specialest Place of Them All (Not Including Mountain View, because for Pete’s Sake, Palo Alto may be Special but it does Not Have Google Anymore).

3. Palo Alto, CA 3 of 25

Nestled in California’s Silicon Valley, Palo Alto has attracted a pile of tech companies — and their CEOs. Not only does tech granddaddy HP have its headquarters here, but so do newbies like Pinterest and Ning. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has a house in Palo Alto, as did Steve Jobs. Stanford University, which falls within its boundaries, adds to the city’s prestige.

Palo Alto nurtures startups and the money that results from their successes. Its residents reap the rewards. Area schools are exceptional, while the city has 35 parks and a Mediterranean climate that varies by only 20 degrees year-round.

Did you know that Palo Alto’s climate was More Special than that of any of the surrounding Not As Special cities? Perhaps Redwood City (Motto: Climate Best by Government Test) is going to have to come over and punch them out for getting airs.

It’s really weird that you don’t like to talk about Sunnyvale Town Center. We’ve talked about Palo Alto like 1000 times, and even talked about some far away places nobody even heard of. Yet, no coverage on such a significant local development known as Sunnyvale Town Center!

Clicking through the list, it is interesting how low the correlation between median household income and median house price is. Also, does household income take into account how many retired people there are in Palo Alto? Because on any weekday morning at the Ross Road YMCA you’ll see an assload of them clogging up all of the cardio machines.

It’s really weird that you don’t like to talk about Sunnyvale Town Center. We’ve talked about Palo Alto like 1000 times, and even talked about some far away places nobody even heard of. Yet, no coverage on such a significant local development known as Sunnyvale Town Center!

Surely you are exaggerating to make a humorous point. According to the handy little right-hand column, Palo Alto posts have only appeared 148 times.

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